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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 6..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poem does Ellie trade with someone else so she does not have to do the one assigned her?
(a) "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock."
(b) "Sonnet 46."
(c) "The Lady of Shalot."
(d) "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

2. Where is Geoff when the story opens?
(a) At a swim meet.
(b) In the Army.
(c) Away at college.
(d) In the hospital.

3. What does Ellie wonder about what she saw at the bottom of the ravine?
(a) How the man got down there without a machete.
(b) If that is the same fox she and her father saw earlier.
(c) If that might be brier rabbit.
(d) If the gopher can get up the steep banks of the ravine.

4. Why did Will look Ellie up in the school directory?
(a) He feels he's met her before.
(b) He wondered why she was running in the woods.
(c) He wanted to apologize to her.
(d) He thought she looked nice.

5. What does Ellie think of the school itself?
(a) It's wonderful.
(b) It's gloomy.
(c) It's run down.
(d) It's old and ugly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Nancy?

2. What is Ellie's parents' work status?

3. Whom does Ellie spot on the trail?

4. About what does Ellie ask Will while they are chatting?

5. Why is Ellie running with her father in the woods?

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